China Traditional woodcut painting

The Chinese custom of sticking up pictures to celebrate the Spring Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year, was recorded in historical works of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Woodcut printing is one popular method in China to make the Lunar New Year's pictures.

With a history of over 800 years, Zhuxian woodcut painting is as famous as the Yangliuqing woodblock painting in north China's Tianjin, the Taohuawu Lunar New Year's pictures in east China's Suzhou and the woodcut painting in China's kite capital, Weifang.Since the 1980s, however, the diminishing woodcut paintings can only be found in the homes of researchers or collectors or in remote villages, with fewer and fewer artists left in the workshops.